Week 14 is all about 2003. Radio was still king, and although file sharing of older music was in full stride despite the shutdown of Napster, new music found its way to us predominantly via radio. The industry model in place since the early 1950s seemed like it was on solid ground with no threat to its dominance. Very few people, even the techiest among us, had a clue how muh that was going to change in the next half decade.

Every Friday during 2017 we’re going to offer up five songs from each of the last fifty years that tell the story of music as it existed during that year, and how that music ultimately played a role in getting us to where we are today. We're taking the jounrey backwards for a different persepctive on how music has evolved over the past half century. Week 8 brings us to 2009, the end of the aughts.

Back to the Future was a year late, but here we are folks, history as we know it will never be the same. With apologies to all of you 109 year-olds out there, the one thing we all have in common today is this is the first time in all of our lives that the Chicago Cubs are World Series Champions. What better way to tip our collective caps to the Cubbies than with the music of Chicago!